GLASGOW — A push was made at Tuesday’s Barren County Fiscal Court regular meeting to come up with the funding to build two other fields at Jackie Browning Park for the good of the county.

Jacquie Radus, a regional court administrator, spoke to the court at the request of Judge-Executive Davie Greer. She works part time for the Barren County school district, coordinating youth baseball and softball leagues for the last three years.

Monday night she was there to urge the county to put the fields on their priority list.

“We have a very successful program in the Barren County Youth League, but that has come with many years and lots of hours and service and dedication ... to see the program as it is today,” Radus said.

The leagues have been run by the school district because the district provided a place for the children to play baseball and softball, since the fields at Jackie Browning have been unavailable.

“This year we’re going to use [the fields] because they’re ready to use. This is the first year they have been ready and available to use, and safe enough and playable enough for our county to use them,” Radus said.

She has scheduled baseball and softball games on the left field. The right field is regulation size for the Babe Ruth tournament, which will use it in mid-July. The county was awarded the 15-and-under state tournament and the regional softball tournaments for 12-and-under and 14-and-under. This will bring in teams from Wisconsin, Ohio, and other states around the country, Radus said. The county hosted all five of the Babe Ruth softball tournaments in 2009.

Radus’ vision is to have all the leagues play at Jackie Browning, working under one volunteer board.

“Those parents know how to work, those volunteers know what to do, they know how to run a league, they’ve been running it for years,” Radus said.

She also said she wants to see the leagues outside of the school district’s control, though she thanked Jerry Ralston and the county school board for keeping the leagues together. Barren County is the only county in the state in which the school district runs the summer ball programs.

The initial outlay of money that would be necessary — about $135,000, according to estimates researched by Greer — would pay for themselves and sustain themselves.

Radus assured the council that once the two other fields were built to league regulations, including grass infields, the county would start to see district, state and regional tournaments played on the fields.

“We’ve never had a recreational facility for our kids in the county, ever, and it would be a great plus, not only for our kids, but for anybody that wanted to move into the area, to see that Barren County has a place for their kids,” Radus said.

Greer said she has called around to find available grants to build the fields, including land and water grants.

“We have been preparing and I’m going to continue to try to find some funding,” Greer said.

In other business at the fiscal court meeting, Greer again announced jobs at the United States Census Bureau were available. The recruiting will stop at the end of March, and Kentucky is one of the states that has received a waiver from the federal government, allowing recipients of WIC, food stamps and Medicaid benefits to not be required to count income from the census jobs on their annual taxes.

During the week of March 28, the county will be collecting census forms at the government center.

• The court approved the adoption of Megan Lane into the county road system after transportation committee chair Carl Dickerson reported that the drainage system work had been completed on the street.

• Greg Meredith, district engineer for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 3, including Barren and surrounding counties, gave the projected budget allotment for the rural secondary program in the 2010-11 fiscal year. A total amount of $1,568,787 was allotted, with just more than $500,000 going to routine maintenance and traffic on rural secondary roads (142.9 miles in the county). More than $600,000 will go to resurface and improve cross drains on eight miles of Ky. 665, beginning at Glasgow-Park City Road, north to Ky. 70.

Another $126,000 will go to resurfacing 1.2 miles of Ky. 2413 (Old Happy Valley Road), beginning at U.S. 31W north to Ky. 685. There was $270,000 marked for “flex funds,” the 20 percent annual allotment given for the county to use as it sees fit. This year, it can include necessary partial resurfacing of county or state roads.